Eelco Kappeさんのイラストまとめ

A queen in chains.

Zenobia's Last Look on Palmyra (1888) by Herbert Schmalz shows how the queen has one last view at her beloved city before her exile to Rome, after she lost the battle with the Roman Emperor Aurelian.

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What is going through his mind?

Inok (1897) by the Russian artist Konstantin Savitsky (1844-1907) shows a monk in his cell who seems to struggle with the question whether he made the right choice in his life.

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View from Livadia (1861) by Ivan Aivazovsky shows an idyllic view of a town at the coast of the Black Sea.

It shows the view from Livadia Park in Yalta, best known from the Yalta Conference in 1945. Today, it is a resort city in the  Autonomous Republic of Crimea

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A little house concert.

A Girl Playing the Lute by Egron Sillif Lundgren not only shows the girl, but also the older man with a flute next to her. 

This watercolor painting was inspired by Lundgren's visit to India in 1858.

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Some things just look better in the moonlight. 

Scarborough by Moonlight (1898) was painted by Walter Linsley Meegan in his hometown on the east coast of England. It shows the relatively calm harbor with its many boats and the city lights in the background.

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@lilburne_79 Haha, I also really love the way this scene was captured. You may also like this painting by Ivan Aivazovsky about Jesus walking on the water.

Delphin Enjolras believed that pastel was the best medium to capture feminine grace and beauty.

La Lettre is a great example of the results he achieved using pastel. It creates a special luminosity and seems ideal to capture a fleeting moment in time. 

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You can feel the quietness!

A Moonlit Lane (1874) was painted by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), who specialized in capturing the impact of the moonlight on the landscape.

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She makes an exception for us.

The Masquerader by Gaetano Bellei (1857-1922) shows a participant to a masquerade ball who has taken of her mask to reveal herself to us.

Just for a moment going back in anonymity..

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Somebody is very happy!

The Water Nymph was painted by the French artist François Martin-Kavel (1861–1931), who specialized in female portraits, ranging from regular portraits, to mythological women, to Oriental portraits.

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